Three foreign-born Japanese residents have filed a statement of claim against the Japanese national and local governments for the alleged police practice of racial profiling. Each of the applicants sought damages of... Read more »
Japanese prosecutors indicted several individuals from three factions within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) amidst political a fundraising scandal on Friday, according to local media. Former accountants of the Abe and... Read more »
Prosecutors in Japan are seeking the death penalty for the suspect in an arson attack in 2019 that killed 36 people, Justin McCurry reports for The Guardian. Shinji Aoba admitted in court... Read more »
The Seoul High Court rendered a decision on Thursday that ordered the Japanese government to compensate each of the former “comfort women” who initially brought a lawsuit in the Seoul Central District... Read more »
The Supreme Court of Japan ruled Wednesday that a law requiring transgender people to be sterilized in order to legally change their gender was unconstitutional. The case was decided unanimously by all... Read more »
A family court in Japan declared it unconstitutional to require an individual to undergo gender-affirming surgery to obtain identification in line with their gender. The Shizuoka Family Court in Central Japan struck... Read more »
On Thursday, Japan witnessed its first labor strike in six decades. The catalyst for this strike was the sale of the Seibu department store, a subsidiary of the Japanese retail giant Seven... Read more »
South Korean police on Thursday arrested a large number of protesters demonstrating outside the Japanese embassy against the Japanese government’s dumping of treated radioactive water into the ocean. Japan has faced harsh... Read more »
Hundreds of South Korean activists gathered on Saturday in Seoul, South Korea, in public protest following reports earlier this week that Japan will begin releasing radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. According... Read more »